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- CodeIntermediateNew
Migrate Stateful Workloads to StatefulSets with Storage Class Tuning
Receive the current Redis Sentinel topology (3 nodes, ~120GB data), the EBS gp3 baseline performance requirements (3,000 IOPS, 125 MB/s), and the cluster (EKS 1.29 with the EBS …
- Kubernetes
- Statefulsets
- Storage Classes
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - DesignIntermediateNew
Threat-Model and Hardening Proposal for a Whistleblower Intake
Using the current-stack dossier and the CTO mandate brief, build a threat model of the existing intake using the LINDDUN privacy-threat framework (linkability, identifiability, …
- Anonymous Communication
- Threat Modeling
- Tor
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Real-Time Order Pipeline for a Fintech Payments Platform
You receive a synthetic Kafka stream of around 500 transactions per second, a static merchant dimension table (about 80,000 rows), and a daily FX rate snapshot. Design an end-to…
- Streaming Data
- Kafka
- Stream Processing
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Intelligent Interface Spec for an AI-Assisted Code Review Tool
Audit current AI-surface inconsistencies and map every AI signal to a confidence band (high / medium / speculative / unverified). Design a unified intelligent-interface spec: su…
- Intelligent Interfaces
- Interaction Design
- Hci Research Methods
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Persona-Aware Dashboard for a Smart-Building Platform
Examine the case record and argue for a single design direction. Read the 'Current dashboard specification' to understand what exists and where it overloads each role; mine the …
- User Centered Design
- Interaction Design
- Persona Design
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Prompt-Injection Hardening for a Customer-Support Agent
You receive the current agent prompt, the pen-tester's 60-attack injection test set (direct prompt injection, indirect via doc content, refusal-bypass, and exfiltration), and a …
- Prompt Injection Defense
- System Prompt Design
- Red Teaming
Prompt Engineering - CodeSeniorNew
Cache-Optimize a Graph-Analytics Kernel for a Social Platform
Receive the existing kernel (C++ + OpenMP, around 1,200 lines), the 1.8B-edge graph (CSR format, around 14GB), and target hardware (dual-socket AMD EPYC 9354, 384GB DDR5, 256MB …
- Cache Optimization
- Graph Algorithms
- Memory Hierarchy
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - DesignIntermediateNew
Accessibility-First Redesign of an Airport AR Navigation Feature
Using the current feature description in the provided augmented-reality navigation specification, map the existing experience against the two provided legal and technical standa…
- Design For Accessibility
- Interaction Design
- Contextual Inquiry
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Imitation Learning from Human Demos for a Drone Inspection
You receive 6 hours of expert pilot demonstrations (state-action pairs at 20 Hz) recorded in an AirSim wind-farm environment with 3 turbine designs, plus a held-out 4th turbine …
- Imitation Learning
- Behavioral Cloning
- Dagger
Deep Reinforcement Learning - CodeSeniorNew
Port a Numerical Kernel from CPU to GPU for a CFD Simulator
Receive the existing CFD solver (C++17 + OpenMP, around 8,000 lines, the hot kernel is a 7-point stencil sweep over a 512^3 grid), the validation harness, and access to an A100 …
- Gpu Programming
- Cuda
- Parallelism
Performance Engineering of Software Systems - CodeSeniorNew
Assess Secure Cross-Bank Fraud Computation for a Four-Bank Consortium
Using the de-identified situation in the consortium case file and the two synthetic per-bank datasets (the bank suspicious-account lists and the merchant fraud-marker tallies), …
- Secure Computation
- Mpc
- Cryptography
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Diffusion-Policy Imitation for Bimanual Cooking Tasks
You receive 300 teleoperated demonstrations of a bimanual pour-and-stir task in a Robomimic-style simulator, deliberately including 2 valid solution modes per task (left-pour-ri…
- Diffusion Policies
- Imitation Learning
- Multimodal Action Distributions
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Differential Expression Pipeline for an RNA-Seq Drug Discovery Run
Build a Snakemake pipeline running: fastp trimming, salmon quantification against a provided GENCODE reference, tximport for gene-level summarization, DESeq2 differential testin…
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Genomics
- Differential Expression
Computational Biology and Health Informatics - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Crisis Information-Flow Analysis for a Newsroom
Using the sampled propagation log and the editorial brief in the provided materials, design and partially demonstrate an analysis that reconstructs the alert's 72-hour spread as…
- Computational Journalism
- Temporal Networks
- Network Science
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit a Climate-Tech Sensor Dataset for Production Readiness
You receive 18 months of raw sensor readings from 1,200 sensors (about 800M rows), plus a sensor-metadata table (location, firmware version, deployment date). Profile the data f…
- Data Quality Audit
- Data Profiling
- Time Series Analysis
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - CodeIntermediateNew
Strangler-Fig Migration of a Monolithic Order Service
Stand up an HTTP facade in front of the monolith (Nginx or a small Go proxy) that routes by URL pattern. Slice 1: extract the order-status read endpoint, dual-write nothing, rou…
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Refactoring
- Legacy Modernization
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - DesignBeginnerNew
Design an Offline-First Android Field-Survey App for Wildlife Rangers
Using only the four provided materials, design a native Android application in Kotlin (with Jetpack Compose for the interface) that targets the rangers' rugged handsets describe…
- Mobile Development
- Android Kotlin
- Sensors
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Stakeholder Workshop on AI Risk for a Public-Sector Pilot
You receive a description of the pilot (24/7 LLM chatbot answering questions on municipal services in Spanish and Catalan). Design a 3-hour workshop for around 25 mixed-stakehol…
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Workshop Design
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Threat Model a Water-Utility SCADA Network Before a Migration
Review provided network diagrams (current and proposed), the asset inventory (around 180 PLCs (programmable logic controllers), 22 engineering workstations, 6 historian servers)…
- Threat Modeling
- Ics Security
- Scada
Cyber-Physical and Cybercrime Topics - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Retrieval Pipeline for a Climate-Research Open Archive
You receive a metadata sample (5,000 documents) plus 50 example researcher queries (mixed-language). Design a retrieval pipeline architecture that: (1) extracts and normalizes s…
- Retrieval Architecture
- Hybrid Search
- Multilingual Search
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Neural Surrogate for Computational Fluid Dynamics in HVAC Design
Use a published CFD dataset (e.g., AirfRANS or a small in-house dataset if available) of around 1,000 steady-state airflow simulations on 2D building zones. Train a Fourier Neur…
- Neural Operators
- Surrogate Modeling
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
AI for Science and Engineering - DesignIntermediateNew
Real-Time Traffic-Sensor Fusion for a Smart Intersection
Design a fusion architecture: per-modality timestamping (NTP-disciplined within 50ms), per-modality confidence weighting (modality-specific noise model), Kalman-filter or partic…
- Sensor Fusion
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Edge Computing
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - DesignSeniorNew
Redesign a Microfinance App for Four Cross-Cultural Markets
Using the current-app flow specification, the retention-and-funnel dataset, the field-session readouts, and the Unicode locale-data reference, design a culturally adaptive versi…
- Cross Cultural Design
- User Research
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Build Saliency-Map Explanations for Dermatology Triage
You receive a trained CNN (ResNet-50 backbone, 7-class lesion classifier) and a 1,000-image held-out test set with dermatologist labels. Implement Integrated Gradients, GradCAM,…
- Saliency Maps
- Integrated Gradients
- Gradcam
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